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Lord Byron [1788-1824] British

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Poet (with poems), Baron Byron

Bipolar disorder, Dark romanticism, Libertine, Romanticism, Slavery

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an Anglo-Scottish poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.

Love, Alone, Wisdom, Age, Death, Famous, Friendship, Great, Life, Men, Nature, Poetry, Society, Truth, Wedding, Architecture, Art, Best, Change, Fear, Food, Good, Happiness, Jealousy, Knowledge, Moving On, Music, Patriotism, Relationship, Religion, Romantic, Sad, Smile, Space, Sympathy, Time, Travel, Trust, Valentine's Day, Women

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.	Love, Music, Nature, Society	101
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.	Alone	102
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.	Life, Smile	103
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.	Fear, Love, Valentine's Day	104
Adversity is the first path to truth.	Truth	105
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.	Death, Life, Men	106
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.	Friendship, Love, Relationship	107
There is no instinct like that of the heart.	Romantic	108
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.		109
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.	Wisdom	110
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.		111
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.	Knowledge, Wisdom	112
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.	Love	113
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.	Great, Wedding	114
I love not man the less, but Nature more.	Nature	115
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.		116
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.		117
Absence - that common cure of love.	Love	118
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.	Food	119
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.	Men	120
Who loves, raves.	Love	121
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.	Best	122
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.	Great	123
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.	Happiness	124
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.		125
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.		126
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?	Change, Truth	201
The busy have no time for tears.	Time	202
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.		203
The heart will break, but broken live on.	Moving On	204
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.	Travel	205
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.		206
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.	Architecture, Poetry	207
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.		208
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.	Religion	209
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.		210
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.	Age	211
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.		212
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.	Jealousy	213
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.		214
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.		215
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.		216
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.		217
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.		218
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.		219
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.		220
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?	Patriotism	221
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.		222
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!	Poetry, Space	223
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.	Art	224
There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?		225
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.		226
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.		301
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.		302
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?		303
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.		304
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.		305
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.		306
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.		307
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.		308
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.		309
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.	Good	310
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.	Age, Alone	311
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.		312
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.		313
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.		314
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.	Sad	315
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.		316
They never fail who die in a great cause.		317
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.	Death	318
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?		319
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.	Alone	320
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.		321
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.		322
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.		323
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.		324
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.	Trust	325
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.		326
Friendship is Love without his wings!	Friendship, Love	401
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.	Society	402
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.		403
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?		404
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.		405
The best prophet of the future is the past.		406
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.		407
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.		408
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.		409
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.	Women	410
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.		411
The dew of compassion is a tear.	Sympathy	412
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.		413
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.		414
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.		415
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.		416
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.		417
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.		418
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.		419
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.		420
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.	Wedding	421
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.		422
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.		423
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.		424
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.		425
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.		426
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.		501
Fame is the thirst of youth.	Famous	502
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.		503
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?		504
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.		505
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.		506
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.		507
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.		508
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.		509
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.		510
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.	Wisdom	511
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.		512
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.		513
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.		514
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.		515
Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.		516
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.		517
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.		518
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.	Famous	519
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.		520
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.		521
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.		522
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.		523

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